Gary Waters wrote:
Greetings,
I changed my motherboard, CPU, and Videocard. I previously posted my intentions and queried as to whether or not Fedora would survive the transition, which it did....with flying colors. However, windows XP did NOT. I'm now looking to repair or reinstall XP so my daughter won't drive me nuts over not being able to play her games.
Could somebody point me to a FAQ on how to do this and restore grub? The man pages are somewhat vague. I really don't want to lose this fedora installation. I spent a lot of time fine-tuning it. I did some googling on the matter, but I would feel much more secure with whatever suggestions this list has to offer. Thanks.
Gary
The following makes these assumptions. a. XP was installed on /dev/hda, and that fedora is elsewhere. b. you used grub to boot XP. c. grub is on the MBR.
1. Boot with Fedora 2. save the MBR # dd if=/dev/hda of=/path_to/mbr.img bs=512 count=1 3. reinstall XP 4. boot with knoppix 5. mount the drive where you saved the mbr record 6 restore the saved MBR # dd if=/moun_path_to/mbr.img of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 7. reboot to fedora.
There are of course, other options, such as making a boot floppy, do the reinstall of XP, then boot back to fedora from the floppy and doing grub-install etc.
